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Accounting · Spain and Italy

Accounting software for transport companies

For transport companies established in Spain or Italy, each under its own country’s rules; there is no version for other countries. Your tanker company’s accounts come from what you already do in Giormo: every haulage invoice, every purchase, every collection and every payslip generates its entry on the Spanish General Accounting Plan (PGC) or the Italian chart of accounts. In Spain, VAT and withholding returns are calculated from the same data and, if an adviser keeps your books, you send them the A3 link file; in Italy, the electronic invoice goes to the SdI and the VAT registers fill themselves.

Nothing is keyed in twice

In a transport company, what makes the accounts hard work is not the tricky entries but the hundreds of haulage, diesel and workshop invoices that have to be keyed in by hand. In Giormo those invoices already exist — they come from the order or are read with AI — so the entry posts itself and the books are up to date without keying anything in. We cover invoicing in the invoicing software.

From journal entry to year-end closing

In Spain, everything on the Spanish General Accounting Plan; in Italy, on the Italian chart of accounts, with VAT registers, SdI and financial statements under Italian rules. Sub-accounts for customers and suppliers are created automatically.

Entries that post themselves

From sales and purchase invoices, collections and payments, payroll and depreciation, in both countries. In Spain, also from corrective invoices, drivers’ travel expenses and the VAT settlement. And manual entries when you need them, with account suggestions.

Purchase invoices read with AI

You upload the invoice from the workshop, the diesel supplier or any other supplier, and the AI reads it and recognises the supplier by its tax ID (NIF in Spain, partita IVA in Italy). When you save it, the entry is already made with its sub-account. In Italy, received XML invoices are not yet imported directly from the SdI: you upload them the same way and they go into the purchase register.

VAT and withholding tax

Spain: forms 303, 390, 111, 115, 180, 190, 347 and 349, calculated from your invoices and payroll, in PDF and Excel ready for your adviser, and 349 as a file for the AEAT e-office. Italy: sales and purchase VAT registers with their protocol number and summary by rate, monthly or quarterly settlement, LIPE and annual VAT return data, TD16–TD19 integrations, the logistics reverse charge (Law 207/2024), the €2 virtual stamp duty on invoices with amounts not subject to VAT above €77.47 (with the international transport exemptions) and withholding tax on professionals’ invoices with the annual statement for the CU, plus the Intrastat services file.

Bank and reconciliation

You import your bank statement — Norma 43 or CAMT.053 in Spain, CAMT.053 or CSV in Italy — and Giormo reconciles on its own the transactions whose amount and counterparty match, and suggests the rest. Once reconciled, the collection or payment is posted.

SEPA batches

In Spain, CORE or B2B direct debits straight from the invoices, with their mandates, and transfers to suppliers and for payroll. In Italy, SEPA files in standard XML (there is no CBI format). Giormo generates the file and you upload it to your bank.

Books and year-end closing

Spain: journal, ledger, trial balance, balance sheet and profit and loss account in PDF and Excel. Italy: balance sheet and income statement under articles 2424 and 2425 of the Italian Civil Code, with the XBRL instance for filing. In both, year-end closing and the opening of the next year in a single step.

From haulage job to journal entry

Each invoice line carries its sales account — in Italy, also its VAT nature and chargeability, split payment included. When you issue the invoice, it is posted to the customer’s sub-account (in Italy it also goes into the sales register); when you collect it, so is the collection. If it is corrected or cancelled, its entry is too.

  • Tractor units and tank trailers as fixed assets: their monthly depreciation and its entry post themselves (in Italy, with the first-year reduction).
  • Several companies — haulage, tank trailers, cleaning station — in the same account, each with its own entries, financial years and returns; a Spanish company and an Italian one each keep the accounts of their own country.

If your accountant keeps the books

No need to change accountant. Giormo prepares what they need, without anyone keying in the invoices again.

SII and VERI*FACTU in Spain, SdI in Italy

In Spain, if your company is in the SII, Giormo sends issued and received invoices to the AEAT, retries those that fail and checks what was accepted. If it isn’t, VERI*FACTU is ready: we switch it on with you, company by company, after testing it in the AEAT’s test environment. In Italy, the FatturaPA XML is checked before it is issued — anything the SdI would reject blocks sending — and Giormo sends invoices to the Sistema di Interscambio from your company’s PEC address — the channel that needs no accreditation — and reads the receipts the SdI sends back; if the message doesn’t go out, the invoice is not shown as sent. The transmitted XML is kept exactly as it was, with its hash, so you can produce it at any time. Legal archiving (conservazione sostitutiva) is done by an external provider — your accountant or the free service of the Agenzia delle Entrate — and Giormo prepares each period’s package with the original XML files, their receipts and an index.

Frequently asked questions about accounting

Can my accountant keep doing the books?
Yes. In Spain, if your adviser (gestoría) works with A3, you send them the link file with third parties, invoices and due dates, and Giormo remembers what has already been exported; if they use another program, they receive the tax forms, the journal and the books in PDF and Excel. In Italy, your accountant (commercialista) receives the VAT settlement, LIPE and annual return data, the Intrastat file, the withholding statement and the XBRL instance. Tell us what they work with and we’ll look into it.
Does Giormo file the returns with the tax authorities?
No. In Spain it calculates the forms from your data and gives them to you in PDF and Excel, plus form 349 as the AEAT file; you or your adviser file them, and the filing receipt is recorded afterwards. Form 303 does not cover pro rata, cash accounting, the equivalence surcharge or imports: if any of these applies to you, tell us first. In Italy it calculates the VAT settlement, the LIPE data and the annual return data, and prepares the Intrastat file, but it does not send the F24, the LIPE or the VAT return: you or your accountant file them, and the return is then marked as filed. The Intrastat file comes out without a digital signature, ready to sign and upload.
Does it connect directly to my bank?
For now you work with the statement you download from your online banking — Norma 43 or CAMT.053 in Spain, CAMT.053 or CSV in Italy — which Giormo imports and reconciles. Batches work the other way round: Giormo generates the SEPA file and you upload it to your bank. In Italy the SEPA files are standard XML; there is no CBI format, so check with your bank that it accepts them.
What if I have several companies?
Each company keeps its own entries, financial years, invoice series and returns, separate from the rest, and you switch from one to another without leaving Giormo. It is common in transport, where the haulage company, the tank trailer company and the cleaning station company sit side by side. If one company is in Spain and another in Italy, each keeps the accounts of its own country.
Can I use just the accounting?
The accounting lives inside Giormo, with orders, invoicing and purchases, because that is where the entries come from. If you already work with another system, tell us how you do it and we’ll work out the best way to start.

Accounts up to date, without keying in invoices

Tell us how many invoices you issue and receive each month, whether you keep the books in-house or with an accountant, and which program you use. We’ll show you how it would look in Giormo.

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